Bernie Sanders gets readers’ vote for TIME Person of the Year
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders may be behind Hillary Clinton in the opinion polls, but he beat her out (by far) in the readers’ 2015 TIME Person of the Year poll.
In an online vote, Sanders topped the list with 10.2 percent of the vote, soaring past Clinton (1.4 percent), as well as Donald Trump (1.8 percent), Marco Rubio, Ben Carson (both with 1.1 percent), Carly Fiorina (0.6 percent), and Jeb Bush (0.5 percent).
He also beat out Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, who came in second place with 5.2 percent of the vote. Pope Francis (3.7 percent), President Barack Obama (3.5 percent), and Stephen Colbert (3.1 percent) rounded out the eclectic top five.
Of course, this poll isn’t definitive. TIME’s editors will announce the official Person of the Year on Wednesday. We’ll find out then if they’re feeling the Bern, too.
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